IP: Cox and Comcast enroll in Microsoft financial aid program:: Good Morning Silicon Valley Wed Dec 05 12:00:11 EST 2001

[David Farber <dave@farber.net>]

> Cox and Comcast enroll in Microsoft financial aid program: Microsoft 
> reportedly is hell bent on foiling AOL Time Warner's plan to acquire AT&T 
> Broadband, AT&T's cable unit. Hoping to keep the venture's 13.7 million 
> cable subscribers in the hands of a Microsoft sympathizer, the software 
> behemoth is <http://www.msnbc.com/news/667087.asp>offering to financially 
> support both 
> <http://news.excite.com/news/ap/011204/12/excite-internet-access>Cox 
> Communications and Comcast's competing bids for the company. Should 
> Microsoft's effort fail and AOL Time Warner's bid to acquire AT&T 
> Broadband succeed, the cable-television landscape would change 
> dramatically, particularly for AOL Time Warner competitors. "I just think 
> it can't possibly be in consumers' or anybody else's best interests, or 
> us, or other big players, to be locked out of the significant part of the 
> [cable] market," <http://www.newsbytes.com/news/01/172695.html>Microso! ft 
> CEO Steve Ballmer said.


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